Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1930)

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May 3, 1930 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD 21 Independent Supply Dealers of Key Cities Form National Unit Each Dealer-Member of Affiliated Organization Will Retain Entity — United Front for Aggressive Merchandising Is Aim, Says Clyde Badger of Kansas City, Acting Chairman [By Special Correspondent to the Herald-World] KANSAS CITY, April 29. — An organization of independent theatre supply dealers has been perfected and is ready to start operations on a national basis, according to an announcement made this week by Clyde Badger, manager of Stebbins Theatre Equipment Company of Kansas City, who is acting chairman for the association. The body is to be known as the Affiliated Theatre Supply Dealers and to date practically every key city in the United States is represented in the list of dealer-members. SMPE Schedules 52 Papers for Its Meeting May 5-8 Hays, Franklin, Thalberg, Jenkins Among Those to Speak at Washington (Special to the Herald-World) NEW YORK, April 29. — The most extensive and diversified program of papers and entertainment ever given in the history of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, will be offered at the society s spring meeting to be held in Washington, D. C., May 5 to 8, at the Wardman Park hotel. The program of 52 papers covers practically every branch of the motion picture industry. Among the many subjects covered are television, color, home radio movies, acoustics, medical cine^ microphotography, and many. phases of sound recording and reproduction. The list of speakers includes such notables as C. Francis Jenkins, famous for his developments in motion pictures and television; Will Hays, who will be the principal speaker at the banquet; Irving G. Thalberg, vice president of MGM; and Harold B. Franklin, president of Fox-West Coast Theatres. There will also be speeches in sound by a number of others prominent on the West Coast. Of special interest will be a visit to the Bureau of Standards. Among the entertainment features will be a visit to the White House, a sight-seeing trip to Mount Vernon, special screenings of motion pictures, and a banquet on Wednesday night, with entertainment furnished by Washington theatres. Everyone planning to attend the meeting is urged by the committee to make reservations at the Wardman Park hotel, by writing directly to the hotel. A Chicago section of the SMPE is to be formed soon. An informal dinner and meeting was held in Chicago April 17 by Chicago members of the society, at which time 26 members drew up a petition asking the Board of Governors for authority to organize the section. Each of the 26 members is pledged to bring in one new member by May 1. J. A. Dubray of Bell & Howell, was elected temporary chairman; and J. E. Jenkins temporary secretary. Columbia to Make Dialog Screen Epic of “Arizona,” American Stage Classic (Special to the Herald-World.) NEW YORK, April 29. — The famous stage play, “Arizona,” has been secured by Columbia for an all-talking screen production. The play, by Augustus Thomas, began its nine years of popularity in 1899 at the Hamilton Opera House in Chicago, where it had its premiere and where it played for more than a year with a cast including Theodore Roberts. Robert Edeson, Arthur Byron, Olive May, Eleanor Robson, Edmund Holt and Lionel Barrymore. Eisenstein, Russian Director, Signed by Lasky at $100,000 (Special to the Herald-World) PARIS, April 29. — Serge Eisenstein, soviet film director, whom the French government ordered to leave the country, has signed with Jesse Lasky at a reported figure of $100,000 annually to direct for Paramount. He is planning to sail for America soon, having received permission from the soviet government to go to America for six months. “In keeping with the many advancements which have brought the motion picture industry to a new stage of greater and more significant development,” said Badger in an announcement, “and with the future of the motion picture theatre so bright, Affiliated Theatre Supply Dealers is formed to provide for the independent theatre supply dealers a united front, more aggressive and more effective merchandising. Each Dealer Retains Entity “But the organization, designed in the interest of all members equally, in no manner affects the dealer-members in the independent operation of their business. Each member-dealer will continue to run his own business, for it is not the purpose of the organization to regulate or interfere in any manner with any dealer-member’s management of his business. The membership of Affiliated Theatre Supply Dealers is a membership of successful concerns; their individual methods and policies have been tried and proved during many years’ experience— each of the dealer-members must continue to make good in the territory he serves.” Manufacturers of product sold by the independent dealers have expressed their interest in the organization and have pledged their desire to cooperate. Dealer-Members Listed The dealer-members and the cities in which they are located follow: Birmingham, Ala., The Queen City Feature Service, Inc., V. Harwell. Boston, Mass., Independent Theatre Supply Co., Inc., A. M. Hosmer. Burlington, Vt., H. P. Boardman Co., H. P. Boardman. Charlotte, N. C., Carolina Theatre Supply Co., J. U. McCormick. Chicago, 111., Guercio & Bartel, Jas. V. Guercio ; Movie Supply Co., M. N. Behrend. Cincinnati, O., Cincinnati Motion Picture Co., Clarence E. Runey. Cleveland, O., Oliver Moving Picture Supply Co., Elwyn E. Oliver. Clovis, N. M., Eastern New Mexico Theatre Supply Co., E. R. Hardwick. Denver, Col., Graham Bros., Harry W. Graham. Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Theatre Supply Co., A. E. Thiele. Detroit, Mich., McArthur Theatre Equipment Co., Geo. McArthur, Fargo, N. D., McCarthy Theatre Supply Co., T. J. McCarthy. Greenville, S. C., Imperial Film Service, Trio Amusement Co., Ed C. Curdts. Houston, Tex., Southern Film Service, Inc., I. P. Haring. Kansas City, Mo., Stebbins Theatre Equipment Co., C. H. Badger. Los Angeles, Cal., Breck Photoplay Supply Co., J. E. Maguire ; B. F. Shearer Company, B. F. Shearer; J. Slipper & Co., Guy Slipper. Louisville, Ky., Louisville Film & Supply Co., W. E. Carrell. Memphis, Tenn., Monarch Theatre Supply Co., I. M. Cohen. Milwaukee, Wis., The Ray Smith Co., Rav A. Smith. New York, N. Y., Amusement Supply Co., Inc., I. H. Moskowitz. Omaha, Neb., U. S. Theatre Supply Co., U. S. Scenic Studios, Inc., Wm. C. Paapke; Quality Theatre Supply Co., Carl White. Portland, Ore., B. F. Shearer Co., B. F. Shearer. St. Louis, Mo., Erker Bros. Optical Co., H. G. Lihou. Salt Lake City, Utah, Service Theatre Supply Co., Inc., Gordon Thornburg. San Francisco, Cal., B. F. Shearer Co., B. F. Shearer; Western Theatrical Equipment Co., L. G. Dolliver. Seattle, Wash., B. F. Shearer Co., B. F. Shearer. Sioux Falls, S. D., American Theatre Supply Co., Jos. A. Bradley. Spokane, Wash., Spokane Theatre Supply Co., H. Smith. Washington, D. C., Ben Lust Theatre Supplies, Ben Lust. Fox Film Corporation Earns $9,469,050 During 1929; Equal to $10.28 per Share (Special to the Herald-World.) NEW YORK, April 29. — The Fox Film Corporation reports that its profit for 1929, ending December 28, amounted to $9,469,050, which is equal to $10.28 a share on combined 820,660 no par shares of class A stock and 100,000 shares of class B. This compares with net profit of $5,957,218, or $6.47 a share, earned on the combined shares in the year ended December 29, 1928. NEW YORK, April 29. — Application for an injunction to restrain Fox Film from “issuing, transferring or delivering” 1,600,000 shares of its own stock plus $27 ,000,000 in cash for the acquisition of 600,000 shares of Loew’s, Inc., was filed in federal court by H. Clay Kress of Philadelphia and Wilhelmina Heymann of Boston.